JUNE 26, 1996 : (AFGHANISTAN : HEKMATYAR SWITCHES SIDES) On June 26, 1996 Gulbudin Hekmatyar once again changed sides and joined the Rabbani Govt. as the Prime Minister. This angered the Taliban and the Pakistanis, as it made a mockery of their `Anti-Rabbani Alliance' efforts. The Taliban intensified rocket attacks on Kabul city. This marked the beginning of the Taliban's second assault on Kabul. The Taliban quickly doubled back to seize Jalalabad in August 1996 after bribing the reigning warlord. Then in a swift campaign, they seized the provinces of Nangarhar, Laghman, and Kunar. Next they advanced with lightning speed taking Sarobi and finally entering Kabul city itself. The speed of the advance paralyzed the Rabbani Govt, Mas'ud accused the Pakistanis of involving regular troops in Taliban offensives. On 26 September 1996, Mas'ud lost control of Kabul to Taliban. He retreated to his main bases in Panjsher. After the loss of Kabul, Mas'ud chose to be more open in his opposition to the Pakistan army. He engaged in military confrontations with the Taliban at Bagram, and later in Konduz, Takhar, and Baghlan. His position grew precarious with each battle. Pakistani manipulation and the world's short attention span brought many hard days on him. As the Pan-Islamist agendas of the Taliban became clearer, international support for Mas'ud returned and slowly despite murderous losses in the battles against a Taliban army composed increasingly of Pakistani Army regulars, Mas'ud continued to pose a serious military and political challenge to the Taliban and Usama Bin Laden's Al Qai'da. ----------- aghfa.com
Note one of the Khobar Towers investigators was US Attny Kenneth Melson, who was later removed by Eric Holder...
Gun Inquiry Costs Officials Their Jobs [or laterally transferred]
8/31/2011, 12:24:11 AM · by fight_truth_decay · 24 replies
NYTimes ^ | August 30, 2011 | CHARLIE SAVAGE
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Tuesday replaced two top Justice Department officials associated with an ill-fated investigation into a gun-trafficking network in Arizona that has been at the center of a political conflagration. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced the resignation of the United States attorney in Phoenix, Dennis K. Burke, and the reassignment of the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Kenneth E. Melson. The two officials became the highest-profile political casualties yet in the fallout from a disputed effort to take down a weapons-smuggling ring based in Arizona and linked to...
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Speaking of Hezbollah... aren’t Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s Pakistani ITs involved with a Hezbollah figure?
7 posted on 10/11/2017, 12:40:17 AM by piasa (...)
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Why yes, yes they are:
House Dem IT Staffers Owed Money To Hezbollah-Connected Fugitive
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Daily Caller ^ | Feb 21, 2017 | Luke Rosiak
Congressional aides suspected of criminally misusing their access to House computer systems owed $100,000 to an Iraqi politician who is wanted by U.S. authorities and has been linked to Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Middle Eastern terrorist outfit.
8 posted on 10/11/2017, 12:41:42 AM by piasa (...)